The overall objective of the grant is to enhance DOAJ and the open access infrastructure that supports researchers` ability to publish in reputable open access journals.

The specific objectives are:

To improve the reputation and visibility of open access journals from developing countries

To increase the knowledge and use of best practices among developing world publishers of open access journals

To raise awareness among developing world researchers of the threat posed by questionable open access publishers

To create a web resource that provides researchers with criteria for the identification of reputable open access journals

To increase the knowledge and use of DOAJ among developing world academics and publishers

DOAJ is now seeking 8-10 full time individuals as DOAJ Ambassadors (10 month contract) who are residents in the following regions and are native speakers of the indicated languages and fluent in English:

Region

Languages

Latin America

Spanish and/or Portuguese

Middle East & Persian Gulf

Arabic

Africa (North/West)

Arabic and French

Africa (South/East)

English

India/Pakistan

Hindi

Indonesia

Indonesian

China

Chinese (Mandarin or Cantonese)

The tasks of the DOAJ Ambassadors are:

To promote DOAJ in their respective regions

To review and actively solicit new applications and reapplications to DOAJ from their region

To discover and assist open access publishers in their region in implementing good publishing practices

To identify questionable publishers and practices

The role requires knowledge of academic publishing, in particular online journals, editorial processes, best practices and publishing technology standards.